Kantian ethics : value, agency, and obligation / Robert Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stern, Robert, 1962- author.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Ethics, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 284 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Value, agency, and obligation

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. The topics he explores include value, perfectionism, agency, autonomy, moral motivation, moral scepticism, and obligation, and he consider the influence of Kant's ethics on subsequent thinkers, up to the present day.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction. Part 1 Themes from Kant's ethics : Kant, moral obligation, and the Holy Will

constructivism and the argument from autonomy

The value of humanity: reflections on Korsgaard's transcendental argument

More scepticism and agency: Kant and Korsgaard

Moral scepticism, constructivism, and the value of humanity

Does "ought" imply "can?" and did Kant think it does?

Why does ought imply can? Part 2 Ethics after Kant : On Hegel's critique of Kant's ethics: beyond the "empty formalism" objection

Does Hegelian ethics rest on a mistake?

"My station and its duties:" social role accounts of obligation in Green and Bradley

The ethics of British idealists: perfectionism after Kant

Round Kant or through him? On James's arguments for freedom, and their relation to Kant's

"Duty and virtue are moral introversions:" on Løgstrup's critique of morality

Divine commands and secular demands: on Darwall on Anscombe on "modern moral philosophy"

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780198856061

0198856067

9780191033650

0191033650

9780191789113

0191789119

OCLC:

921182884